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What were the most immediate changes a lower class french person would have felt in their lives after the French revolution?

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How corrupt was Italy during the Renaissance period? Is the modern image of an era dominated by a struggle between mafia like families accurate or is it a biased misrepresentation of a time and place not more corrupt than any other?

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How where relations between the different ethnic and religious groups in the Crusader States?

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Today many large cities have what you might call slums and large populations of homeless vagrants. - was this always the case in history or is the notion of surplus unemployed populations in cities a recent phenomenon?

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Were there any recorded instances of writers criticizing the practice of imperialism before the 19th century?

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What was the relationship like between the different ethnic and religious groups in the holy land during the Crusades?

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Since the theme of the week is corruption , lets talk about it, how common was the concept of "abuse of power" across history before the industrial ere, and what penalties could a leader or bureaucratic administrator face if found guilty of such?

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What was life like in the soviet union after the Stalin era?

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What were the most immediate changes a lower class french person would have felt in their lives after the French revolution?	7
How corrupt was Italy during the Renaissance period? Is the modern image of an era dominated by a struggle between mafia like families accurate or is it a biased misrepresentation of a time and place not more corrupt than any other?	6
How where relations between the different ethnic and religious groups in the Crusader States?	5
Today many large cities have what you might call slums and large populations of homeless vagrants. - was this always the case in history or is the notion of surplus unemployed populations in cities a recent phenomenon?	5
Were there any recorded instances of writers criticizing the practice of imperialism before the 19th century?	1
What was the relationship like between the different ethnic and religious groups in the holy land during the Crusades?	1
Since the theme of the week is corruption , lets talk about it, how common was the concept of "abuse of power" across history before the industrial ere, and what penalties could a leader or bureaucratic administrator face if found guilty of such?	1
What was life like in the soviet union after the Stalin era?	0